Screening Room
Researcher Videos
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Jerome Crowder, Research Assistant Professor, Anthropology
- The best advice I've received
- How would your research be different if you weren't using a camera?
- On focus groups...
- My best advice for students..
- My research
- On participitory research
- Being a visual ethnographer
- Why the Camera?
Alice Cepeda, Assistant Professor, Sociology
- On dangers in the field...
- About live history interview...
- On integrated methodologies...
- How funding facilitates research...
- Challenges of working wtih high risk populations
- Research interests
- Best advice received...
- Advice for high risk work...
- What is social mapping?
Amanda Baumle, Assistant Professor, Sociology
- Research interests
- What is demography?
- On occupational segregation
- Are there other disciplines that do demography?
- Best advice received...
- Experiences doing demography
Bruno Breitmeyer, Professor, Psychology
- Analyzing Data
- Applied vs Basic Research
- Best Advice
- Ethical Issues
- Experimental Design
- Independent vs. Dependent Variables
- My Research
- The Role of Theory
Jim Query, Research Director, Health & Crisis Communication
- Analysis Techniques
- Best Advice Received
- Importance of Mentoring
- Mixed Method Design
- My Research
- Using Surveys
Janis Hutchinson, Professor, Anthropology
- Best Advice
- Analyzing Qualitative Data
- Benefits of Focus Groups
- Informed Consent
- My Research
- Participant Observation
Hanako Yoshida, Assistant Professor, Psychology
- Being a Research Assistant
- Benefits of Joining a Lab
- Finding Research - Be Flexible!
- How Do You Collect Data?
- My Research
- Obtaining Consent
- Real World Experience
- Research Advice
- Take Advantage of Opportunities
- Where to Start
Tatcho Mindiola, Director, Center for Mexican American Studies
- Advice to Undergraduates
- Best Advice Received
- My Research
- Qualitative Work
- Using Informal Interviews
Dr. Tracy X. Karner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Houston. Dr. Karner teaches graduate seminars in Qualitative Methods Medical Care and Gender & Trauma and undergraduate courses in Qualitative Research, Death and Dying, Social Psychology, Introduction to Health Care, American Society, and Sociology of Family at the University of Houston. She has coauthored a textbook with Carol Warren, Discovering Qualitative Research: Field Methods, Interviews, and Analysis, (Roxbury, 2005, www.roxbury.net ) as well published in several journals, including Symbolic Interactionism, Qualitative Health Research, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Communication and Cognition, American Studies Journal, masculinities, The Clinical Sociology Review, Journal of Aging Studies, Journal of Aging and Mental Health, The American Sociologist, Journal of Applied Gerontology, and Journal of Aging and Social Policy.
